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The only mention of tools I could find is this:

> it significantly improves project planning, backend architecture, frontend design, and data engineering through sequenced, multi-step actions involving external tools or API.

I'm guessing this means it was trained with tool calling? And if so, does that mean it does tool calling within the thinking/reasoning, or within the main text? Seems unclear

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Tool calling isn't enabled in the official Magistral Small GGUF (or the Ollama one) which is sad. Hope they (or someone else) fix that soon.

They have already released Devstral, which is a tool-specific finetune of the same base model. That works pretty well with cline (even though it was specifically tuned for open-hands).

This would likely be a good model for the "plan" mode in various agentic tools (cline, aider, cursor/windsurf/void, etc). So you'd have a chat in plan mode, then use devstral to actually implement that plan.

Devstral is targeting tool use+coding I think, so something like Magistral but also tool calling (during thinking) would be handy too, just for other use cases. But also beneficial in the context of creating plans for Devstral.

Working on adding tool calling support to Magistral in Ollama. It requires a tokenizer change and also uses a new tool calling format. Excited to see the results of combining thinking + tool calling!

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